Illusion, Seduction, Persuasion

Abstract

In the framework of a general reflection on this subject and of a revision of the different manifestations of illusion, the article strives to clarify the different disciplinary perspectives. From the general point of view, the subject of illusion is proposed as a discourse of illusion; or rather, an enunciative instant, a sender, is taken into account, which either presents or denounces illusions through its discourse making a distinction primarily between two cognitive, passional and pragmatic states: he that believes and he that doesnt believe in the illusion. The identification of illusions is a discursive exercise that is found at the center of the human search of amplification of his/her conscience. The article also strives to clarify the concepts of seduction and persuasion in its link with that of illusion and, finally, to expound briefly on the perspectives of study of illusion from tensive semiotics.